How are you?
Use stai with someone you address as tu.
FREE BEGINNER LESSON 2 · ITALIAN
Italian: How are you?
Ask how someone is and return the question.
Informal · one person. Learn the meaning, listen to the pronunciation, then practise in the interactive lesson.
Practise this lessonOpening vocabulary referenceUseful Italian phrases and their meanings
I am well, thank you.
Sto is the first-person form of stare. Bene means well.
And you?
A short, natural way to return the question to one friend.
I am well too.
Anch’io means I too. The apostrophe joins anche and io.
How the sentence works
Come stai? asks one person how they are, informally. Sto bene means I am well. Italian often leaves out the subject because the verb gives that information. E tu? returns the question. Tu is informal singular you.
A short conversation in Italian
Hi! How are you?
I am well, thank you. And you?
I am well too.
Words to recognise
how
well
and
also / too
Listen to the whole phrase before focusing on each word. You can replay as often as you like, and the interactive lesson uses pictures and a short exchange to put the meaning in context.
Open the interactive lessonThe opening six teaching lessons are free, including the mini-tests after lessons three and six. A test accepts any answer and shows the score and corrections at the end. No typing or speaking aloud is required.
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